Platform Design Engineer

About this job opportunity
 

Our Vision

To be the world's most trusted global payroll partner, simplifying pay for all employees.

Our Mission

Empowering global workforces with seamless, compliant, and innovative payroll and payment solutions, enabling businesses to thrive in a connected world.

Our People

Our fundamental beliefs at CloudPay are built on core values of professionalism, passion, empowerment, innovation, and teamwork. We value our employees and strive to create a great workplace where everyone is valued, heard, inspired, and encouraged to bring their authentic selves to work. We're committed to providing an excellent employee experience through fulfilling projects, empowerment to make a difference, and an environment that inspires innovation.

What makes this role exciting

CloudPay is a company that has been growing at 30% for five years straight; we find ourselves at an inflexion point in our technology stacks and IT organisational structure. CloudPays engineering teams build very sophisticated software using open-source technologies with the majority being in Java. We operate out of AWS. Our platform design engineers play a crucial role in the design, building and maintenance of all our software and services.

CloudPay builds, deploys and operates half a dozen customer-facing services and many more backend services across 1000+ Linux hosts and AWS-managed services. The ideal candidate will have a good working knowledge of Linux Systems is strong with scripting in various languages, working with AWS and is a strong study of new technology.

If you’re a self-starter who likes a challenge and is looking for an exciting new Platform Design Engineer role where you will have a real influence and impact on Cloud Infrastructure design, this is the role for you. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a highly-skilled, high-functioning team, forming an essential part of a rapidly expanding global business within the technology and financial services space.

Main responsibilities

• Provision, Maintain and Design secure cloud infrastructure using Terraform

• Work with Platform Operations team exploring complex technical challenges and incident response

• Build and manage secure CI/CD automation

• Maintain complete and comprehensive documentation

• Work closely with software engineers and fellow platform design engineers across different parts of the world

Experience needed for this role

• Experience working within agile teams

• Experience using ways of working tools such as Jira and Confluence

• Good understanding of the following concept:

  • GitOps

  • IT Security; GDPR, encryption at rest/in transit, patching, least privilege

  • Networking; VPN’s, VPC’s, Transit Gateways, Routing, DNS, Firewalls

  • Strong experience in public cloud providers such as Azure, GCP or AWS (Preferred)

• Containerisation and microservice architecture

About you and Our core values

• Taking ownership, working with integrity and respect

• Being a team player is key to our culture

• Solution and customer focused

• Great initiative with the goal for excellence in achieving results

• Dedicated to developing and always looking for continuous improvements

• Be creative, be committed, be engaged and enjoy what you do

United Kingdom Package and benefits

• Competitive Salary

• Competitive vacation allowance

• Calm app

• WFH Allowance

• Life Assurance

• Private Medical Insurance

• Cycle to Work Scheme

• EAP

• Eye Tests & Glasses Contribution

• Simplyhealth Enhanced Health Plan

• Pension Scheme

• Give-As-You-Earn (GAYE)

• Employee Referral Program

• CloudPay NOW

• Paid Volunteering days

• Marriage Leave

• Bereavement Leave

• Vacation Purchase Plan

Spain Package and Benefits

• Competitive Salary

• Competitive vacation allowance

• Calm app

• Private Medical Insurance

• EAP

• Intensive Days

• Employee Referral Program

• WFH Allowance

• Life Assurance

• CloudPay NOW

• Paid Volunteering days

• Marriage Leave

• Study Leave

• Bereavement Leave

CloudPay is committed to being an equal opportunities employer.

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The CloudPay culture is built upon on five core values, from which we develop our service, our technology and our business strategies. Our fundamental beliefs are a promise to our employees, customers and partners, built on the core values of professionalism, passion, empowerment, innovation, and teamwork.
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